People with schizophrenia are more likely to die of COVID-19
And peculiarly, scientists are not entirely sure whyOriginally from Salon.com...And peculiarly, scientists are not entirely sure whyOriginally from Salon.com...Leave Jake Lloyd alone: We need compassion for mental illness, not snark
Published: Salon (April 11, 2016)
Life wasn’t easy for Jake Lloyd after his starring role in “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.” As anyone who went to the movies in 1999 will recall, his subpar performance was frequently singled out as a major weakness in a film that was hardly lacking in shortcomings.... Read Original Article
From the Minds of Babes: We Must Take Depression Seriously
Published: The Good Men Project (December 17, 2015)
Do you want to read an observation about depression that is, well, depressing? I turn to a recent comment by Dr. Joan Luby, the director of the Early Emotional Development Program at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis:
“Nobody believed preschoolers could get depressed. ... Read Original Article
On Autism and Loneliness
Published: The Good Men Project (November 12, 2015)
I recently discovered some lyrics from a Beatles song that resonated so strongly with me that I needed to include them here.
Courtesy of “Eleanor Rigby”:
Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?... Read Original Article
An Asperger’s Bill of Rights
Published: Asperger’s 101 (October 2, 2015)
If you are a High Functioning Autistic (HFA), the odds are troublingly high that you also suffer from some form of depression.
As someone who suffers from depression myself, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about how to find happiness when you struggle with the burdens of having an autistic brain.... Read Original Article